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The first bike manufactured by Yamaha was actually a copy of the German DKW RT 125; it had an air-cooled, two-stroke, single cylinder 125 cc engine [1] YC-1 (1956) was the second bike manufactured by Yamaha; it was a 175 cc single cylinder two-stroke.
Yamaha Motorcycle CKD Assembly Factory was established by the direct collaboration of Yamaha Japan and the necessary equipment and technical supports are supplied by Yamaha Japan to ensure the quality in every stage of manufacturing. Two models will be assembled at the plant at first and manufacturing of motorcycles will start from 2020. [11] [12]
Yamaha YA-1 at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2005. In the early-1950s, Yamaha had to replace its musical instrument factories as they were severely damaged during the war. Yamaha was also facing the industrial conversion of factory machine tools that had been used during the war for the production of fuel tanks, wing parts, and propellers for aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy, such as the ...
Yamaha was the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water-cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off-the-shelf bikes). Yamaha's first Motocross competition four-stroke bike, the YZ400F, won the 1998 USA outdoor national Championship with ...
Prior (1950s), Rebadged German Hercules scooters by Industria Ltd of London for the UK and Commonwealth markets, models included the Viscount — United Kingdom/West Germany [98] Puch — Austria; Rabbit, (1946–1968), Brand of Fuji Heavy Industries. The first model, S-1, entered production 6 months before the Vespa — Japan [99] Ravat ...
This was the first Yamaha V50 and was one of the first models to be sold along with the V70 and the V90. The original V50 had a 49 cc (3.0 cu in) two-stroke engine with a three speed semi-automatic gearbox and could reach speeds of about 35–40 mph (56–64 km/h).
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Yamaha used the designation XP500 for all previous model years; more than 233,000 TMAX scooters have been sold in Europe. [ 18 ] Notwithstanding the fact that the TMAX was Yamaha's second mega-scooter, the first being the YP 250 Majesty introduced in 1996, [ 15 ] motorcycle journalist Kevin Ash said that the "T-Max is the machine that invented ...